28 Aug
2004
28 Aug
'04
noon
Hi Christopher,
Thanks for the tip on Live CD for G5. It will surely save me some time preparing the custom boot disk I was going to make for the G5 machines. Since I can have a headstart with this CD, I can work on compiling udpcast on a G5 machine.
Cheers!
--
Rishi R. Arora
LAN Administrator, Computing Services
University of Toronto at Mississauga
> Well, no. However, I suspect you can get a Linux machine running on
> your network with the image you want to udpcast. Gentoo seems to have
> live CDs available here:
>
> http://gentoo.osuosl.org/experimental/ppc/livecd/g5/
>
> You may have to compile the udpcast client for PPC and put it in the
> image (or copy it onto each machine after booting -- yeech). Then it
> should be a straightforward 'dd' to /dev/sda (or whatever).
>
> I don't think Linux can mkhfs+ so you're probably stuck with dd(/gzip).
> Otherwise, you could create the filesystem, install the bootloader,
> and then udpcast and unpack a tarfile.
>
> rgds,
> Chris
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